The National Association of Telecommunications Subscribers (NATCOMS) has begged the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to extend the NIN-SIM Linkage deadline from September 14 to September 30.
The National President, NATCOMS, Deolu Ogunbanjo, sought the extension due to the challenges of the National Identity Management Commission’s (NIMC) portal.
He stated, “As I visited the customer centres of Airtel and MTN, I witnessed firsthand the struggles they faced in uploading data to NIMC portal. The congestion was palpable, and the slow pace of uploads was frustrating. It was clear that the NIMC portal lacked the capacity to handle the surge in uploads, causing undue stress for telecom operators and their subscribers. I am appealing to the NCC to grant an extension of the deadline to September 30, to allow more time for NIMC to expand its portal capacity.’’
Ogunbanjo said the two-week extension was needed for the NIMC to increase the capacity of its portal, adding that telecom operators at the customer centres usually struggled to upload on the NIMC portal.
He said that difficulty uploading on the NIMC portal frustrated the process and caused delay.
